Get in early! Don't miss our full day of pre-conference workshops on Tuesday, August 3!
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The Teach-In: Elevate Your Journalism Teaching
A day-long "teach-in" for area media advisers with presentations from nationally
recognized scholastic journalism educators and practitioners. $FREE
8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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Making New Connections: Engaging Consumers and Students
A day-long workshop on how to connect with and engage with consumers.
8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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Visual Storytelling & Information Graphics: Using Flash to Create Rich Data Visualizations
A multimedia storytelling workshop
that will include both hands-on software instruction as well as
discussion about how to teach interactive graphics and multimedia
storytelling in the higher education classroom. $75 (limited to 20 participants) 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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Something Old, Something New: The Advertising Division's Teaching Workshop goes back to the future
How to
write a syllabus that sets a positive tone for the semester; how to
teach an Introduction to Advertising class for the masses; and the
ever-popular Open Forum where we spend some time sharing concerns and
ideas as a group. $35 (limited to 40 participants)
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Newsroom to Classroom: Adapting from JMC Pro to JMC Faculty
How to adapt
newsroom or agency experience to successful pedagogy and research with two 90-minute panels - one focusing on the transition to
teaching, the other on publication writing. $FREE
12 p.m. (noon) to 3 p.m.
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How to Keep Ethics Alive as Institutions Die: Teaching ethics in a changing market
Participants will consider the ethics of being among the
last employees on the job, profit loyalty, cyber-marketing, and new
applications of utility. University administrators will discuss the
viability of stand-alone ethics courses as media programs evolve. $50 ($40 for students) (limited to 30 participants) 12:30 to 6 p.m.
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Examining Gender Equity: From the College Classroom to the Corporate Boardroom
Examining gender equity in both the academy and
media industries, organizations where, as communication professors,
many of us once worked and where many of our students hope to find jobs. $FREE
1 to 5 p.m.
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International Communication on the Border: Pedagogical Techniques for Dealing with Issues within the US
A diverse group of experts on
international communication will present techniques and useful tips
for teaching border and international issues within the US, like bi-cultural markets, global public relations, Spanish
language television and coverage of drug traffic and the US/Mexico
border. $30
1 to 5 p.m.
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Best Practices in Convergent Media Education for Small Programs
Learn successful convergent
teaching methods from proven educators in advertising, public relations, print-based news,
photojournalism and broadcast classes. Participants will leave with syllabi, CDs filled with
helpful tips and exercises, and notes from dialogue with helpful peer
colleagues from across the nation. $30
1 t0 5 p.m.
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Beyond Baron and Kenny: Modern Mediation Analysis, A workshop with Andrew F. Hayes
Andrew F. Hayes is
one of the leading communication scholars in the areas of research
design, psychometrics, and data analysis. He is internationally
renowned for the statistical analysis of moderation and mediation
effects and resampling methods of inference. $30 Faculty $20 Students (limited to 30 participants)1 to 5 p.m.
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The Media History Exchange
An overview of the Media History Exchange, a project funded by the National
Endowment of the Humanities to create an archive and social network for
media historians working in different disciplines. $FREE
1 to 5:30 p.m.
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Effective Teaching Strategies for Junior Faculty
A help session for those new to academe wishing to build a strong foundation for effective
teaching, featuring group discussions and a Teaching Handbook with handouts to use
throughout the year. $25 (limited to 40 participants)
1 to 6 p.m.
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Tips and Trends From Legal Research Experts
A crash course in legal research methods.
1 to 7 p.m.
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Communicating the Environment: Theory and Practice
Practitioners and academics working in the environmental
communications discipline will address the complexity of climate change with theory and practitioner panels. $102 to 5 p.m.
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Journalism Schools as News Providers: Challenges and Opportunities
This four-hour event will include case studies and experts in
Pro-Am journalism, journalism education and media law from journalism
schools and departments nationwide. It also includes a networking reception. $39 (limited to 100 participants)
3 to 8 p.m.
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Internship Issues
A starting point to
develop a network of internship program supervisors across the country,
and even around the world, in order to share arrangements, contact and
perhaps to some degree even supervision of distant internships. $5
5:30 to 10 p.m.
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Teaching on Reporting about Nations in Conflict, Security & Risk and Natural Disasters
How scholars from around the world are teaching
about nations in conflict and how journalists cover security, risk
issues and natural disasters in today's media climate. $30
5:30 to 10 p.m.
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Off-site Sessions and Tours |
About AEJMC
The Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication is a nonprofit, educational association of journalism and mass communication educators, students and media professionals. The Association's mission is to advance education, foster scholarly research, cultivate better professional practice and promote the free flow of communication.
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